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On November 12, 2011 one punch changed the future of the heavyweight division and Junior Dos Santos will no doubt be looking to repeat that event tonight as he once again faces former heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez, who recently dismantled Antonio Silva en route to his second shot at the Heavyweight title.

at 11/10 they've now changed them so it's more or less a pick'em but I thought that was quite interesting, I think if he can close the distance and wear on Phillippou in the clinch or even drag the fight to the ground he's got a good chance.

Phillippou has some very good footwork (he was a professional boxer iirc) and he's demonstrated some very good takedown defense in the past, so it's quite possible that he could stay on the outside and snipe away at Boetsch for 15 minutes.

It's a big step up for phillippou and he might just try to bore the fight to a decision with long range jabs. Lots of questions over Boetsch as well. Think this will be the worst fight of the night actually.

plus staying on the outside and utilizing kicks and jabs to maintain the distance is probably the best strategy for Phillipou.

I suspect Lombard's power made Boetsch seem much more tentative in his last fight so I'm curious as to what kind of strategy he'll employ here, particularly since an impressive performance could well put him in the middleweight title picture.

he was obviously horrible against boetsch but i thought he was just as bad against that stocky leg bloke. just plodding forward and swinging at full power all fight. really can't see him making a run at contendership.

There are some fantastic fights to watch out for on the undercard. If you've never seen Melvin Guillard fight before you're in for a treat he's one of the most explosive fighters in the lightweight division and Jamie Varner hasn't been in a single boring fight that I can recall.

Brad Pickett vs. Eddie Wineland, is essentially a batamweight title eliminator with two well rounded bantamweights with cardio for days and knockout power.

Todd Duffee has finished every single one of his wins by TKO or KO with only one making it out of the second round also, none of his fights have ever gone the distance.

Yeah the varner guillard fight should be tasty. Bit of trash talk has been going on since varner pulled out of their previous bout and guillard had to be held back at the weigh in yesterday. The fight will probably be a snoozefest now :)

Sounds like it might be a guddun. They're both known for making people tap out, right?

There's lots to criticise about the UFC. Plenty of it is WWF-style girly grappling, in my opinion, but their matchmaking could rarely be criticised. Seems they pretty much always give the audience the fights they want to see, and have no qualms about putting the top fighters in with eachother.

MMA will never have the prestige, history or garner public interest in the UK like boxing does (though i believe PPV audiences are now comparable with big boxing fights in the US, and probably exceed them in Japan and some parts of South America), but there are things from it that boxing can learn, just like Dana White's done vice versa.

Millers haymakers and POWER leg kicks! Standing arm triangle attempt! Rubber guard (some great tehcnical jiu jitsu there)! Both of them standing there slugging with no energy! The heel hook and front choke attempts by Lauzon through a mask of blood at the end!